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- Comment on [Discussion] The Eminence in Shadow - Ch. 74 17 hours ago:
Honestly I think the mangaka has a great sense of comedy that didn’t seem completely present in the small slice of the anime I watched so I’m not too worried.
- Comment on Clevatess • Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Kabane no Yuusha - Episode 5 discussion 2 days ago:
I had always supposed the 4 great beasts were on good terms with one another, but I guess not. Regardless, humanity is looking more screwed than ever - especially if this is happening in the territories of the other great beasts as well.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 31] 4 days ago:
I think this may be the best entry point into UC (i.e. mainline) Gundam.
I think I agree. It doesn’t require any prior UC knowledge to enjoy and it’s my favorite entry in UC anyways, and tied with Build Fighters as my favorite Gundam anime overall.
Doing so takes the focus away from the cool robots and instead be in-your-face with its core message: war is bad.
Don’t forget the other essential core message: “Economic oppression leads to war”
I’m not sure how to describe [Apocalypse Hotel], except that it is very good. It does a bit of everything and does them well.
I think what makes it hard to describe is that the tone and style of the show varies wildly episode to episode. I agree though, great show.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 6 days ago:
He mostly retired. He no longer posts videos regularly, though I think there’s a podcast he’s on.
- Comment on Clevatess • Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Kabane no Yuusha - Episode 4 discussion 1 week ago:
The wetnurse looks very different post-resurrection. Was her face just that messed up from being beaten so often? I guess it would be unfair if Alicia had a complete monopoly on all the suffering in this series.
- Comment on What anime character, you wish had more merch? 2 weeks ago:
It annoys me that there isn’t a single decent figure of Miyuki Shirogane from Kaguya-sama: Love is War. Ideally they’d sell Kaguya & Shirogane figures that pose together like they did for the main characters of Skip and Loafer, but unless I want a Nenderoid I can’t get anything at all of him. He’s the main character. All the girls have piles of options, because of course they do.
- Comment on How does the community feel about inviting content creators? 2 weeks ago:
Basically he had a bad time with the Mastodon community.
- Comment on How does the community feel about inviting content creators? 2 weeks ago:
I have no problem with it. Maybe a dedicated self-promotion community would make sense so people could post their own videos without feeling like they’re spamming /c/anime or whatever.
- Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 2 discussion 2 weeks ago:
My wife looked it up, and she actually found the European demon that showed up! www.deliriumsrealm.com/pruflas/
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 29] 2 weeks ago:
Started a couple of shows this season, and here are my impressions:
- Chihayafuru - SungWon/ProZD has been talking this show up for years, and since it’s recently been featured on the Quest for the Best podcast I finally decided to give it a try. It seems fun! I wasn’t sure about it initially since the first couple of episodes very much feel like the “let’s be mean to Chihaya and Arata for no goddamn reason” show but now that I’m about 5 episodes in it’s become fun to watch the main character bulldoze through her problems.
- Nyaight of the Living Cat - A zombie apocalypse is going down, except instead of zombies it’s cats. Anyone who allows a cat to cuddle up with them turns into one! Fun writing, great voice acting, mediocre animation. Might be better to read the manga tbh.
I’m also coming up on the end of season 1 of Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. Episodes 20 & 21 were awesome, so I look forward to finishing the first season soon.
- Comment on One-Punch Man webcomic ch. 155 2 weeks ago:
It was on this day that Metal Knight learned there actually is value in not having everyone in the Hero Association think you’re their enemy.
Also, love those panels of Tank Top Master praising the comparative flexibility of the tanktop and offering to hand one out to those in need.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Accidentally Reveals They've Been Using ChatGPT for Sub Translations 2 weeks ago:
There’s also a third problem: visual context. Someone translating a manga or anime would normally be able to see what’s happening, which can be essential when translating certain otherwise-ambiguous lines.
- Comment on Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms 2 weeks ago:
Maybe that works if you’re translating large blocks of text, but when it’s small bits of isolated text where the viewer is expected to have visual context which the LLM won’t have it’s a hot mess. I tried experimenting with some translation software on a page of manga and it got a lot of stuff wrong.
- Comment on Maomao's Diaires #48: Mask (The Apothecary Diaries) 3 weeks ago:
Did you transcribe and translate that yourself? Thanks!
- Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 1 discussion 3 weeks ago:
only kinda know of nichijou because of a meme (good morning evernyan! Oh my gah!) but so far I’m really digging this. I don’t get the connection tho??
That’s Azumanga Daioh, hence the confusion. If you look up something that’s actually from Nichijou the resemblance is obvious.
The art style is really cool and I was kinda shocked because I’ve never seen anime try to emulate depth of field like this before.
I think it’s probably the simplistic character designs that make it possible for the animators to go above and beyond with their cinematography. Simplistic character designs, talent, and hard work.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 28] 3 weeks ago:
Stuff from last season:
- Apothecary Diaries - A solid ending for a solid show. Glad to say I liked the final episode of the season more than the penultimate one.
- Apocalypse Hotel - This show started out good and then very quickly became great. I was worried there wasn’t enough material to keep a team of robots running a hotel interesting but they certainly proved me wrong! Hard to say whether this or Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux was anime of the season for me.
Stuff from this season:
- The Summer Hikaru Died - A highly-rated horror yaoi manga brought to animation by the same studio that gave us Bang Brave Bang Bravern and the aforementioned Apocalypse Hotel. The first episode was pretty solid. Overall it looks pretty good, which is no guarantee when it comes to horror manga. Definitely good enough to get me interested in episode 2.
- City: The Animation - Same mangaka and animation studio as Nichijou, and it shows in all the right ways. It seems a little calmer than Nichijou so far, but that could very easily be because it spent most of its runtime introducing a wide cast of characters. Excited to see where it goes from here.
- Witch Watch - Witch Watch continues. It’s fun, but I’m not sure it holds up to the other shows I’m discussing here.
- Nyaight of the Living Cat - Haven’t seen the first episode yet, but I’m putting this here just to say I’ve seen the trailer and I am very intrigued. Hopefully I can rope my wife into watching this with me tonight.
Other stuff:
- Yakitate Japan!! - I mentioned this earlier, but this is an anime about making bread that’s better than another guy’s bread. There are bread tournament arcs and everything, judged by a zany character who is voiced by my favorite voice actor. It’s a wild time; I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a fun old relatively low-stress thing.
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand-alone Complex - I don’t know if I have much to say about this other than it’s good sci-fi and those who like good sci-fi should consider watching it.
- Gintama - I got back on the Gintama train recently. I’m somewhere around episode 220 and it continues to be funny as hell.
- Princess Jellyfish - My wife has been watching this one, and I’ve watched about an episode and a half with her. Seems like a good show; I’ll likely finish it at some point but I have no idea when.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 28] 3 weeks ago:
I agree, Vivy was great. Really unfortunate that it got buried among the other great shows that keep coming out. I’d like to give it a rewatch but I have no idea when I’ll have the time with all this other anime to watch.
- Comment on The Summer Hikaru Died • Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu - Episode 1 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Horror yaoi? Looks fun. I didn’t love how the episode ended but I enjoyed this and will definitely be giving episode 2 a look as well.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 14 discussion 3 weeks ago:
They may not have been the highest-effort OP and ED, but it’s still pretty cool that they made an OP & ED just for the show the characters were watching in-universe.
- Comment on "Daemons of the Shadow Realm" Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) 3 weeks ago:
Trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MuWL_UPoGU
As a Fullmetal Alchemist fan I’m very much looking forward to this.
- Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 1 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Felt a lot calmer than Nichijou, but maybe that’s just their respective OPs fooling me. IIRC Nichijou itself also takes a while to become truly great so I’m looking forward to what kind of gags we get once we’re through with the first wave of character introductions.
- Comment on [DISC] Ichi the Witch - Ch 41 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure some people liked it but that scene where everyone was talking about how great Gokuraku is felt pretty forced to me. “And then everybody clapped.” All the same, great manga and I look forward to seeing what the next arc brings us.
- Comment on Crunchyroll accidentally confirmed it uses ChatGPT for subtitles 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t noticed anything funky in the English subs but it’s unfortunately no surprise that they’d be using AI-generated subs for languages with lower viewership.
- Comment on (Macross Director) Shoji Kawamori’s First Original Feature Film “Labyrinth” Set for January 2026 Release — A Sci-Fi Fantasy Rooted in Smartphones and Identity 4 weeks ago:
The teaser trailer opens with a light-hearted moment of Shiori filming a dance video with friends, but quickly takes a dark turn as she becomes trapped in the smartphone world
Oh okay, so this is anime TRON. Except that when the original TRON was made computers were a representation of how cool the future would be. Now smartphones are a representation of how tech companies have leveraged our psychological flaws to trap us in unhealthy relationships with social media, mobile games, etc.
I enjoyed the original Macross so I’ll probably give this a look but unfortunately I expect it to be a depressing time.
- Comment on Just finished Medalist, wow. 4 weeks ago:
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
it wasn’t from a studio I was familiar with
Yeah, this came out of nowhere. Previously the studio had mostly done a mediocre job of things so it was a pleasant surprise when the Medalist adaptation ended up being competently put together! That said, now it’s time to also recommend the manga. Season 2 has been announced, which is certainly something to be excited for, but advancing the story isn’t the only reason to read the manga - it’s also worth it because of how great the art is. I mean, look at this portrayal of Hikaru pulling Inori at top-speed, “as if the ice itself were propelling her”:
Seriously, we’re at max expressiveness here:
The skating looks great too!
- Comment on Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27] 4 weeks ago:
The Spring seasonals from my perspective:
- Apocalypse Hotel - I’ve watched the first 6 episodes so far. Seems fun, will hopefully finish within a few weeks.
- Apothecary Diaries - This has been a good time overall, though there are some parts in recent episodes where it’s clear a scene probably worked better in writing than in animation.
- I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! - Watching the main character exist was actively unpleasant for me; I couldn’t even finish one episode.
- Kowloon Generic Romance - Seems very interesting. Watched the first 3 episodes but the pacing threw me off so I think I’m going to seek out the manga and read that instead. Might come back to the anime afterwards if I like the manga.
- Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux - This had a banger of an ending. Wild show. Some people might think it’s paced too quickly; I personally found it engaging and fun this way. Easily my anime of the season. Wish I could recommend it to everyone, but I’m not sure it’s the best choice for those who haven’t seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam. wjs018 seemed to be enjoying it for a while though so maybe it’s fine.
- Witch Watch - The animation is kinda meh but I love the characters and the goofs are fun. Will continue watching this one into Summer.
As for summer, I have my eye on a few things:
- City - Same mangaka as Nichijou, same studio as Nichijou. Need I say more?
- The Summer Hikaru Died - I don’t know much about this but I heard the manga was good and it’s being adapted by Cygames so odds are pretty good that it’ll be worth my time.
- Dan Da Dan Season 2 - If this is adapting the manga arc I think it’s adapting this is the part of Dan Da Dan where you realize that Season 1 was relatively calm and restrained actually. I can’t wait.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 13 discussion 4 weeks ago:
The new OP is fine, but it’s hard not to compare it with the truly excellent first OP.
But wow is this girl down bad. She makes our female lead look cool-headed by comparison.
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 23 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the links! I didn’t know about the USJ ones; amusing stuff.
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 23 discussion 5 weeks ago:
I feel like that big long exposition meeting was probably a narrative device that worked better in the original text than in animation. I found myself a little bored at times with this episode.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 5 weeks ago:
you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle
No. Fuck that. My PC has a headphone jack, and I use it. I don’t have a bunch of extra USB-C ports on the front of my computer. Modern phones have plenty of spaces for headphone jacks. They could put it there, they just don’t want to.
